The Strange Tale Of John McAfee Gets Even Weirder

When someone repeatedly tells you something and then says, "Hey,
I lied about that," it gets pretty hard to believe anything the
person says.

So it goes with the John McAfee saga, the stranger-than-fiction
story of the antivirus software magnate and his life on the run.

He has been avoiding the Belizean police, who want to question
him about the murder of his neighbor in the Central American
country.

For a guy on the lam, McAfee can't stop talking, on his blog and
his Twitter
account and to the press, particularly about his whereabouts.

Today, he says he is Guatemala accompanied by his 20-year-old
girlfriend and two journalists from Vice magazine,
editor-in-chief Rocco Castoro and photographer-videographer
Robert King. Castoro and King have confirmed that they are with
McAfee shooting a documentary they describe as "epic." In the
meantime, they, too, are writing
blog posts along the way.

On Sunday, McAfee's blog claimed he had been captured near
Mexico. On Monday, the blog confessed that McAfee had faked it
all in a scheme involving a body double and a North Korean
passport.

When one of the journalists with him accidentally revealed their
whereabouts yesterday by tweeting a photo which contained data
about the location where it was taken, McAfee blogged that this,
too, was faked. He said he had falsified the data.

Today he says, he lied about that, and said the he and his
entourage really are in Guatemala.

The whole story will no doubt one day become a made-for-TV movie.
It involves murder, drugs, sex, escape, lies, misdirection, a
pregnant woman, dead dogs, and all sorts of accusations leveled
at the police, the media, and McAfee himself.

The Vice reporters say that, as of today, McAfee has hired a
powerful Guatemalan lawyer, a former attorney general of that
country, who also happens to be the uncle of McAfee's girlfriend.

"If all goes well" tomorrow, McAfee will be holding a press
conference in Guatemala, his blog says. That
may or may not be true, but the whatever happens next is
guaranteed to be intriguing.